This report surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and the elderly in OECD … fare? What is the mix between public and private sources of income? Do the elderly poor remain poor? There is also a …

. The retirement income system in Canada stands on both public and private retirement savings plans. This article describes …Amidst the financial crisis and changes in the labour market, retirement savings plans are subject to greater scrutiny … the coverage of Canadian workers by private retirement savings plans. Using cross-sectional tax data from the T1 Family …

This article explores the potential effects of retirement on mental health and health care utilisation isolating … sources of potential heterogeneity in treatment effect. To estimate the effects of retirement, we devise a new identifying … British Household Panel Survey, a rich representative longitudinal survey. It is found that retirement has a small impact on …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

Using a rich cross-sectional dataset, we estimate the effect of meetings with friends on self-perceived health, chronic … correlated with self-perceived health, negatively associated with chronic conditions but not related to limitations in activities …

interaction on health in Italy. After controlling for household income, education, work status and a number of socio …-perceived health. The frequency of visits with relatives has a significant, but weaker effect. Membership in voluntary organizations is … a significant and weakly negative predictor of good health. Other relevant explanatory variables are education and work …

model are income, health care price and the proportion of population aged more than 65 years old. Moreover, the TYDL … causality indicates that health expenditure and income is bi-directional in nature, thus policies initiative to promote health …The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of health expenditure in Malaysia within the time series …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

unhappy or very unhappy feelings. The rest of the factors such as income, education, age, gender, and employment status are …